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Even here the vowels can merge, but to a tense /eː/: [ˈbeːtn̩, ˈdeːnən, ˈzeːɡn̩]. [32] Scholars who question the existence of a phoneme /ɛː/ do so for the following reasons: The existence of a phoneme /ɛː/ is an irregularity in a vowel system that otherwise has pairs of long and tense vs. short and lax vowels such as /oː/ vs ...
For German, Fischer-Jøergensen (1990) presents articulatory descriptions of tense/lax vowels. In general, lax vowels are shorter, have higher first formant (F1) frequencies and a more centralized F2 then tense vowels. The results of Jessen et al. (1995) indicate that the acoustic correlates of the tense/lax vowel distinction in German depend ...
Notice that the closest vowel to tense KÖ is not lax + or even (tense) [Ö , but rather tense GÖ . With respect to the tense-lax pair KÖ + this confirms, for a particularly large dataset, findings that go back to Meyer (1910), i.e. lax vowels are generally lower (here in terms of Factor 1) not only (unsurprisingly) than their
May 29, 2018 · 2. As we know, most German vowels have a 'tense' (or long) pronunciation and a 'lax' (or short) pronunciation. Most of the time, which pronunciation should be used can be determined by the context that that vowel appears in. Long vowels are doubled, followed by an H, or followed by a single consonant. Short vowels are followed by more than one ...
[i] is higher than [I]. But in these two German words [i] is also phonetically much longer than [I]. In the English words beaten and bitten the vowels are much closer to each other in terms of vowel length than the vowels of German bieten and bitten. German long vowels are very long and German short vowels are very short.
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Jan 3, 2004 · The vowels 〈a〉, 〈e〉, and 〈o〉 are long when they are geminated. The vowel 〈i〉 is long when it is written 〈ie〉 or 〈ieh〉. Vowels can be long without being marked as long by these means; typically, only stressed vowels are in this way marked as long. Note that most intervocalic 〈h〉 within morphemes are not pronounced but ...
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tense vowels tend to be longer and more peripheral than their lax counterparts in Standard German (SG). Although various auditory [9, 11, 12, 14] and some acoustic [1, 10] studies have suggested that the tense/lax vowel contrast is much less marked in Standard Austrian than in Standard German, the phonetic basis of this supposedly diminished ...
